Sophie Grgoire Trudeau's Shinto prayer: Love, light, peace and squash

A skipped letter can change the meaning of a word in any language, and in French, a missing "a" can change courage to squash, as SophieGrgoire Trudeaudemonstrated in Tokyo on Monday.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife visited the Meiji shrine in Tokyo as part of their trip to Japan for the G7 conference.

They were invited to write their wishes on a card and hang them on a wall with hundreds of others.

Radio-Canada's Marc Godbouttook a shot ofGrgoire Trudeau's prayer card.

While it's clear that she meant to wish for "Courage, Love, Light, Peace," her misspelling changed the first word to "Courge," the French word for squash.

One Montrealer edited the photo to adda visual aide.

"As we say back home," she joked.

The jokes didn't stop there, though.

"SophieGrgoire Trudeau's prayer to the Japanese gods: Love, light, peace and a great big dose of vegetables."

"To get this short week off to a good start, a message from our first lady to the god of gourds."

"It's fashionable to askthe gods for a squash. Everyone knows that!"

"Only Sophieknows the unsuspected virtues of the squash."

"Poor darling (or, literally, cabbage), I'll give her an 'A'for effort."

"Never has a squash been talked about as much asSophie'ssquash."